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Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Boosts Multi-Core Performance by 9.5% in PassMark, Rivals 285K

As the anticipation for CES 2026 builds, exciting details emerge about Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs. With benchmark ...

Intel's Granite Rapids Xeon CPUs spotted with up to 86 cores, 336MB cache, and $9,300 pricing

Granite Rapids comprises several server and workstation CPUs, led by the Xeon 698X. The flagship is expected to feature 86 cores and 172 threads – substantially ...

AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top?

With 120 and 125 teraFLOPS of BF16 grunt respectively, the Spark roughly matches AMD's Radeon Pro W7900, while achieving a roughly 2.5x lead over the Strix Halo-based G1a, which in our testing ...
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Secure Offline: A Hardware-Bound Cryptographic Framework for Software License Validation in Internet Constrained Educational Environments ()

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...